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Best content in International Politics of the Middle East | Diigo - GroupsSun, 12 Oct 2014 16:28:40 -0000Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:28:40 -0000Dam Rising in Ethiopia Stirs Hope and Tension - NYTimes.comhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/world/dam-rising-in-ethiopia-stirs-hope-and-tension.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
<p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="193" data-total-count="1340" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-3">Ethiopia, one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, has poured its resources into a slew of megaprojects in recent years, including dams, factories, roads and railways across the country.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="348" data-total-count="1688" itemprop="articleBody">But its strong, state-driven approach has been criticized for displacing rural communities, elbowing out private investors and muzzling political dissent. The Renaissance Dam, its biggest project, has met with resistance even outside Ethiopia’s borders, setting off a heated diplomatic battle with <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/egypt/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" title="More news and information about Egypt." class="meta-loc">Egypt</a> that, at one point, led to threats of war.</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="478" data-total-count="2964" itemprop="articleBody">From the very beginning, this relentless drive has put Ethiopia at odds with Egypt. The Renaissance Dam is on the Blue Nile, a tributary that contributes most of the water flowing into the Nile River, heightening concerns that it could threaten Egypt’s most vital natural resource. Fears of armed conflict surfaced during the brief tenure of Egypt’s former president, Mohamed Morsi, who said last year that “Egyptian blood” would substitute for every drop of lost water.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="592" data-total-count="3556" itemprop="articleBody">But under Egypt’s current president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the icy relationship between the two countries has begun to thaw. Ethiopia’s prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, and Mr. Sisi had a cordial first meeting in June, and water ministers from Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan met for renewed discussions in late August. Egypt’s new foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, set a diplomatic tone during a visit last month to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, declaring “a new phase of our relationship based on mutual understanding, mutual respect and a recognition that the Nile binds us.”</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">A smaller dam nearing completion in southern Ethiopia could threaten ecosystems affecting hundreds of thousands of people. Huge land leases to foreign commercial farms have displaced communities and left tens of thousands of acres uncultivated.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Building the vast reservoir needed to generate maximum power, on the other hand, poses some risks to Egypt and Sudan, as it will temporarily lessen the flow downstream.</div></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/water">water</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/nilebasin">nilebasin</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/diplomacy">diplomacy</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/development">development</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/energy">energy</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/climate">climate</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/user/edwebb" title="View Ed Webb's content in group">Ed Webb</a></p>Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:28:40 -0000First Egypt-Ethiopia Nile talks end on sour note - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle Easthttp://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/11/egypt-sudan-ethiopia-reconnaissance-dam-nile-talks.html
<p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Egyptian, Ethiopian and Sudanese ministers of water resources met in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday, Nov. 4, to begin the first round of negotiating sessions set to deal with the Renaissance Dam, as well as to consult with each other on the mechanisms needed to complete it, and how to implement the recommendations of an international committee of technical experts. The latter concluded its activities on May 27 after studying the effects of the dam on the water security of <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/10/sudan-egypt-alliance-nile-ethiopia.html" target="_blank">Egypt and Sudan</a>.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">“We do not want to characterize the negotiations as having failed. We will give ourselves another chance to talk and better clarify everybody’s points of view,”</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Ethiopian Minister of Water and Energy&nbsp;Alamayo Tegno, in a statement given to <em>Al-Monitor</em> after the meetings, said: “The decision to build the Renaissance Dam is resolute, both by the government and the Ethiopian people. We are in complete agreement with Sudan about all the details pertaining to the completion of the dam. Egypt will certainly come to understand this and espouse our position.”</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">An Egyptian diplomatic source told <em>Al-Monitor </em>that Cairo’s options right now revolve around maintaining international pressure and preventing foreign funding of the dam project&nbsp;to slow construction until an agreement can be reached with the Ethiopians. Egypt will also make public the official report prepared by the international committee of technical experts, which shows that the dam will have a negative impact if it is built according to the current planned dimensions.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">As the tug of war between the Egyptian and Ethiopian delegations intensified during the first negotiating session, Sudan fully and unreservedly adopted the Ethiopian position</div></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/water">water</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/nilebasin">nilebasin</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/user/edwebb" title="View Ed Webb's content in group">Ed Webb</a></p>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 03:39:48 -0000In Switch, Egypt May Join Ethiopia In Nile Dam Project - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle Easthttp://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/10/egypt-ethiopia-dam-reconciliation.html
<p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/water">water</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/nilebasin">nilebasin</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/diplomacy">diplomacy</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/user/edwebb" title="View Ed Webb's content in group">Ed Webb</a></p>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:03:51 -0000Egypt’s ‘Lost Dream’ of Linking The Congo and Nile Rivers - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle Easthttp://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/10/egypt-congo-river-water-nile.html
<p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.el-balad.com/515808" target="_blank">a new study</a>&nbsp;conducted by Gamal el-Kalyouby, a professor of petroleum and energy at the American University of Cairo, linking the Nile with the Congo River would divert Congo River water that washes into the Atlantic Ocean into the Nile River Basin. It should be noted that the Congo River water that enters the Atlantic amounts to 1,000 billion cubic meters annually. This diversion could be done by establishing a 600-kilometer [373-mile] canal to transfer water to the Nile Basin from southern Sudan to northern Sudan and then to Lake Nasser, behind the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">the study also suggests diverting Nile water toward the west and also east toward the Sinai. This would serve to create a Sahara delta to the west and a delta at the entrance to the Sinai</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Is this idea impossible to implement, as claimed by successive Egyptian governments, whether during the era of Mubarak or after the Jan. 25 revolution? Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohammed Abdel Matlab answered this question. He told&nbsp;<em>Al-Monitor</em>&nbsp;that linking the Congo River to the Nile is difficult to implement because it requires a canal that goes through southern Sudan, which is riddled with ponds and swamps. Thus, the project would threaten to inundate its territories. What's more, there are some legal problems relating to the prohibition of transferring river waters outside their basins, which is an international principle that Egypt cannot risk violating, not to mention the very high cost of such a project.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">We would be violating an international rule, which prohibits the transfer of the rivers' water out of their watershed. The Congo River has many tributaries in many African countries, such as Cameroon, Guinea, and the Central African Republic.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p>Egyptian businessman Ibrahim al-Fayoumi, considered one of the most prominent Egyptian investors in the Congo and whose company is currently executing a number of infrastructure and mining projects there, spoke to&nbsp;<em>Al-Monitor</em>&nbsp;concerning the government’s justifications for rejecting projects that link the Nile River with the Congo. “These justifications are nonsensical, for there is no legal impediment standing in the way of linking both rivers together,” said Fayoumi.</p>
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“We have reviewed close to 300 river-related agreements, and none of them contained legal deterrents to the project. Taking advantage of the Congo River’s water would not violate international law since the water would be moved between two watersheds that lie within the borders of the same country, and would serve to exploit water that otherwise would be wastefully pushed 300 kilometers offshore,”</p></div></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Congo">Congo</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/water">water</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Africa">Africa</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/nilebasin">nilebasin</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/user/edwebb" title="View Ed Webb's content in group">Ed Webb</a></p>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:06:18 -0000Ethiopia dam fears exaggerated, say experts : EgyptMonoclehttp://egyptmonocle.com/EMonocle/ethiopia-dam-fears-exaggerated-say-experts/
<p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p dir="ltr">Political outbidding aside, local and international experts claim that Egypt’s concerns regarding water and power shortages that may result from the construction of the Ethiopia dam are unfounded, and that the dam could in fact provide more resources for Egypt.</p>
<p>Ethiopia, a Nile Basin country, diverted the flow of the river last week in preparation for the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a $4.2 billion project on the Blue Nile, which started in 2011.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Egypt has demanded a halt in construction but to no avail since Ethiopia is pressing ahead with the project even as it continues to hold official talks with Egypt, which fears the dam could cause water and power shortages. Ethiopia claims it has reported evidence to claim otherwise.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Of the 84 billion cubic meters (BCM) of the Nile water, which reaches the Aswan High Dam annually, 68 percent comes from the Blue Nile.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A 10-man tripartite commission, composed of four international experts, two Egyptians, two Sudanese and two Ethiopians, has claimed that although “inconclusive”, the results from its year-long analysis of the project and inspection of the site show &nbsp;that it will not significantly impact Egypt or Sudan.</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p dir="ltr">A Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) was created in 1999 to begin cooperation among Nile riparian countries, but its participants have failed to reach an agreement to date.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Tensions have been rising since 2007 when negotiations stalled, leading to the signing of a Cooperative Framework Agreement in 2010 by five upstream states to seek more Nile River water, &nbsp;a move fiercely opposed by Egypt and Sudan.</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p dir="ltr">It is predicted that by 2050, at the current rates of consumption, Egypt will be under extreme water stress since 95 percent of its population is living on the Nile basin, compared to 39 percent in Ethiopia.</p>
<p dir="ltr">With annual precipitation at 150 mm/year and few water resources, according to a government report released last February, Egypt’s per capita share of water is 660 cubic meters – well below the international standard of water poverty of 1,000 cubic meters – compared to Ethiopia, where the per capita share is about 1,575 cubic meters.&nbsp;Egypt has 24 cubic meters per capita access to renewable freshwater compared to Ethiopia, which stands at 1,543 cubic meters.</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p dir="ltr">“The Renaissance Dam is not designed to hold back huge amounts of water, but rather to let the water pass for the generation of hydro-electricity.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">Mohammed El-Mongy, of the Water Institute of the Nile, claims that having legal and financial ownership rights in the dam could allow Egypt to reduce loss of water by 6 percent through ensuring water is released right before the peak agricultural season.</p>
<p dir="ltr">During his assessment of the Renaissance Dam, Islam Awad, a geotechnical consultant engineer at Dar El-Handasah, discovered that water losses from evaporation could be minimised by 5 percent, equivalent to 0.58 BCM, by storing water in Ethiopia for a period of time before it reaches Egypt.</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p dir="ltr">Egypt’s arid climate causes 10 BCM, about 12 percent of its stored water, to evaporate per year.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Evaporation rates reach as high as 2,970 mm/year in Egypt, about half of what is lost in Ethiopia at a rate of 1,520 mm/year.</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p dir="ltr">Another possible benefit of the Renaissance Dam is its reduction of siltation, a process where soil erosion or sediment spill creates large particles that pollute water.</p>
<p dir="ltr">By acting as a barrier, the dam could reduce approximately 160 million tones of silt which flows in the Blue Nile every year, and therefore increases the Aswan Dam’s efficiency in power generation.</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p dir="ltr">The Renaissance Dam could also have economic benefits if Egypt pursues economic integration with Nile Basin countries and become an investment partner in the project.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Egypt’s close proximity to Ethiopia, feasibility of transportation and demand for power, would create a favourable climate for cooperation with Ethiopia.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Only 40 percent of the project is locally funded, which means that Egypt could invest in the remaining &nbsp;60 percent guaranteeing some ownership rights.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Egypt can play a proactive role to economically integrate the 400 million inhabitants that live in the Nile Basin countries,” says Ana Cascao, Programme Manager at Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Historically, Egypt is seen by many of its African neighbors as being hegemonic and quasi-colonial in its water usage.</div></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/nilebasin">nilebasin</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/water">water</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/energy">energy</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/hydropolitics">hydropolitics</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/user/edwebb" title="View Ed Webb's content in group">Ed Webb</a></p>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:42:46 -0000Egypt's New Rulers Face Crisis With Ethiopia Over Nile - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle Easthttp://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/07/egypt-nile-ethiopia-sisi.html
<p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">the Nile has returned to the government’s agenda as an external challenge threatening national security. A delegation of senior Egyptian diplomats, including Africa expert Ambassador Mona Omar, traveled to a number of African states, starting with Ethiopia, to explain Egypt’s position and improve its image following the recent coup and overthrow of deposed president Mohammed Morsi. Coordination meetings were also held between the ministers of foreign affairs and irrigation to make progress on the political and technical levels toward a solution to the problem.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p>A diplomatic source told<em> Al-Monitor</em> that in regional negotiations with the upstream countries, the Egyptian attempts to reach a solution over the <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2013/03/egypt-ethiopia-water-war.html" target="_blank">Entebbe agreement</a>&nbsp;or to convince the countries involved to renegotiate the points of contention were an exercise in futility. The source affirmed that Egypt still has some negotiating cards to play.</p>
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Despite Egyptian endeavors to re-launch negotiations over the Entebbe agreement, the Ethiopian and Ugandan parliaments have <a href="http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=1113927" target="_blank">ratified</a>&nbsp;it and refuse to return to the negotiation phase. Instead, they called on Egypt and Sudan to join the agreement.</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner"><p>The Nile issue was one of the first files to be addressed by Mohamed ElBaradei, interim deputy president for international affairs. ElBaradei held an “unannounced” meeting to discuss the crisis of the Nile waters, the mechanisms to be adopted and the steps that would be taken in regard to this issue.</p>
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A diplomatic source who took part in the meeting told <em>Al-Monitor</em>,&nbsp;“The necessity of completing the data of the Renaissance Dam and conducting accurate studies was agreed upon. The meeting came up with three conclusions: first, the impossibility of resorting to international arbitration; second, the non-compliance ... of the past regimes, represented by arrogance and condescending attitudes toward the upstream countries in addition to acknowledging the fact that some policies were wrong; [and] third, the acceptance of the option of cooperating on the basis of building new power-generating dams according to international high-tech standards and making sure that there will be no damage. Additionally, Egypt will call on halting the construction of the dam for the time being until a mutual solution is reached.”</p></div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Egypt gets an annual quota estimated at 55.5 billion cubic meters of water from the Nile in accordance with the <a href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_1959" target="_blank">1959 agreement</a> signed with Sudan, whereby Sudan gets 18.5 billion cubic meters. This distribution is rejected by the rest of the Nile's headwater states, which believe that Egypt gets the lion's share of the water, despite the allegations of Egyptian officials and experts who complain that this share is insufficient for Egypt's internal needs, as the country depends on the Nile waters for <a href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1_%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84" target="_blank">90%</a> of its water needs.</div></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/nilebasin">nilebasin</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/water">water</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/diplomacy">diplomacy</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/user/edwebb" title="View Ed Webb's content in group">Ed Webb</a></p>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:24:24 -0000BBC News - Ethiopia ratifies River Nile treaty amid Egypt tensionhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22894294
<p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/water">water</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/nilebasin">nilebasin</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/diplomacy">diplomacy</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/user/edwebb" title="View Ed Webb's content in group">Ed Webb</a></p>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:46:44 -0000Saudi investor to delay Sudan farm project over dollar curbs - Yahoo! Newshttp://news.yahoo.com/saudi-investor-delay-sudan-farm-project-over-dollar-121530983.html
<p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/KSA">KSA</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/food">food</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/water">water</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/FDI">FDI</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/user/edwebb" title="View Ed Webb's content in group">Ed Webb</a></p>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:33:50 -0000Egypt denies deal with Sudan to attack Ethiopian dams - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Onlinehttp://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/53761/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-denies-deal-with-Sudan-to-attack-Ethiopian-d.aspx
<p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/water">water</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/user/edwebb" title="View Ed Webb's content in group">Ed Webb</a></p>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:02:06 -0000Egypt and Thirsty Neighbors Are at Odds Over Nile - NYTimes.comhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/world/middleeast/26nile.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all
<p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/Africa">Africa</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/tag/water">water</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/international-politics-of-the-middle-east/content/user/edwebb" title="View Ed Webb's content in group">Ed Webb</a></p>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:17:04 -0000